Here we explore variation and similarities in the two best-represented population groups
who lived during the Middle Stone Age and Middle Palaeolithic—the Neanderthals and …

The Acheulean is the longest cultural tradition ever practised by humans, lasting for over 1.5
million years. Yet, its end has never been accurately dated; only broad 300–150 thousand …

The establishment of the Acheulean in Europe occurred after MIS 17, but it was after the
harsh glaciation of MIS 12 and during the long interglacial of MIS 11 that human occupation …

Abstract Middle Paleolithic Neanderthal populations occupied Eurasia for at least 250,000
years prior to the arrival of anatomically modern humans. While a considerable body of …

The life cycle of a successful technological innovation usually follows a well-known path: a
slow inception, gradual assimilation of the technology, an increase in its frequency up to a …

The edges of stone tools have significant technological and functional implications. The
nature of these edges–their sharpness, whether they are concave or convex, and their …

The use of bipolar (on anvil) methods for resource exploitation has been identified in the
archaeological record from the late Pliocene through to the Holocene. During all phases of …

Only a handful of 'flagship'sites from the Purfleet Interglacial (Marine Isotope Stage 9, c. 350-
290,000 years ago) have been properly examined, but the archaeological succession at the …

The increase, in quantitative and qualitative terms, of research attending to the geological
nature of rocks found in archaeological contexts is changing our perspectives about social …

San Quirce is an open‐air archaeological site situated on a fluvial terrace in the Duero basin
(Palencia, northern Iberia). This paper presents new and consistent chronologies obtained …